The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

The television coverage on the first day of the second round started off on the wrong foot, as American John Isner retired from his match after two games. That’s about 180 games less than he played in his marathon match in 2011.

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And it got worse from there. About a dozen players retired or withdrew from matches in the second round, including top 10 seeds Victoria Azarenka, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Marin Cilic. Many slipped and slid on the damp Wimbledon grass, most notably Azarenka’s fall in Round 1 that eventually caused her to withdraw from her second round match.

And then there were the upsets. In an all-screamer duel, Maria Sharapova fell to #131-ranked Michelle Larcher de Brito in straight sets. Ana Ivanovic lost to #66-ranked Eugenie Bouchard. Caroline Wozniacki, who appeared to injure herself in a fall, lost to #196-ranked Petra Cetkovska.

In the feel-good upset of the day, Dustin Brown, ranked #189, toppled former Wimbledon champion and typical fan favorite Lleyton Hewitt. But Brown has quite a story – he used to drive himself around in a van to different tennis tournaments. Now he’s in the third round of Wimbledon – and his watery eyes after the big win showed how much it meant to him.

But the Wimbledon gods saved the biggest upset of the day for last, when Roger Federer fell to Sergiy Stakhovsky, bringing to an end one of the great streaks in all of sports – Federer’s 36 straight major quarterfinals. That’s nine straight years of not losing at a major before the quarterfinals. The U.S. Open in a couple months seems like a great place to start a new streak.

The world returned to its axis on the second day of Round 2, when the top seeds easily advanced and it started raining in England, causing the first weather delay of the tournament.

Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams rolled in their matches. Serena is one of four American women into the third round – the others are unseeded Madison Keys and Alison Riske, and #17-seeded Sloane Stephens. Unfortunately, the same success cannot be said of the men, as there is not one American man in the third round. The last time that happened was the year the Titanic sunk.